Monday, December 13, 2010

Pizza Quick Tip: Less Greasy Pepperoni

Hands up, who has made a pizza that looks awesome before you pop it in the oven? Then you cook it and the pepperoni, salami, linguica or whatever fatty thing you slapped on there in a brazen fit of excess has turned it into a pool of molten grease?(not pictured: lots of grease)

I know it's happened to me plenty of times. Then I learned a trick, although I don't remember from where, and now my pizzas are better for it.It's easy, just microwave the pepperoni, or in this case salami, between some paper towels for maybe ten-fifteen seconds. Not only does this make the pizza less greasy but it helps the stuff crisp up really nice, which is a good time. I don't know why you couldn't do this same thing with any kind of already cooked, thin sliced, fatty meat and cut down on the grease. If you're into that. For those wondering, this is a salami, green pepper and red onion pizza (heh, randomly and appropriately seasonal) with a spicy tomato/roasted red pepper sauce (like this one, without the sausage). It was wicked good.

I usually make it several times a week, how often do you folks make homemade pizza?

Nice. I've been on a major pizza kick lately. I blame it on my hectic schedule and with pizza being pretty easy to make, too. I do something similar with my pepperoni also except I doa oil-less fry on the skillet to remove the grease then drain on a paper towel.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I just wanted to say thank you for this tip. i tried it today with a garlic/oregano homemade pizza dough and it turned out 1000 percent better than i have ever made it before. It made a HUGE difference in taste of sauce and dough. My pizza came out like Domino's quality pizza and for a third of the price. i paid $1.50 for the dough materials, $1 for sauce, $4 for cheese (16 oz), and $3.00 for the pepperoni. I also put some Tabasco Pepper hot sauce on my hubby's parts of the pizza. So i just paid basically $10 for the best pizza ever. i have made pizza so many times and this is hands down the best i have ever made it, just because of this little tip. Thank you so much! i stuffed myself today and it was so good.